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Vikram
Bhatt managed to make a rehash version of the award winning ON
THE WATERFRONT
into an Aamir action flick GHULAM and managed to hit jackpot with
it.
So
here Vikram Bhatt tries to do it all over again and takes an 84' flick
titled JAGGED
EDGE, put
in some scenes from various other movies like BODY
HEAT, WHAT
LIES BENEATH,
and voila...we have the new Hindi release KASOOR!
A
woman gets brutally murdered and the cops accuses her husband Sharat
Saxena (Aftab),
a press editor to have done the crime. Why? To inherit all the
property and wealth. And Saxena to clear his name decides to fight it
out in the court with the help of a lawyer Simran (Lisa
Ray).
Now
Simran had stopped doing criminal cases after a case in which she
sentenced an innocent man to imprisonment. But after everyone around
her forces her to take up the Saxena case she does do so, with help
from her good friend, and associate Amit (Apoorva
Agnihotri).
And
on the other side we have a tough head cop, Lokhwande (Ashutosh
Rana) who is sure
that it is Sharat behind the murder.
Simran
does goes about the case as usual, but soon she begins to get
overwhelmed by the passion that she has for Shekar and begins to
deeply fall in love with this client and this begins even to affect
her work and judgement.
But
eventually Sharat Saxena's fate is decided in the court room where
Simran battles it out to save the life of not just a client, but also
her lover.
Now
obviously the director chose a Hollywood subject, but forgot to make
it back into a more 'desi' form. First of all, the length is a bit
stretched out. Something a movie like this must never try to do!
Secondly there are instances when the movie tries to hard to imitate
Hollywood ... and the designer court room 'CITY HALL' is a perfect
example of that.
Moroever,
the characters are never really there. We have a lawyer and an editor
and both are in those profession just for name sake. Even for a case,
the screenplay never gets into an investigative mode.
Aftab
comes up with a decent performance as Sharat Saxena, though he looks
too young to be a editor. And his T-shirt filled wardrobe too doesn't
help him in the cause at all. And then we have model Lisa Ray trying
her hands at acting. She is pretty ok at times but stiff mostly. It is
only towards the end when she really begins to emote. Certainly a long
way to go! But her character certainly is a sign of the moving times.
But
Ashutosh Rana really dazzles in his role which however wasn't
developed well and mid way you can say he has nothing more to do. Even
an actor like Irfan is wasted here.
The
music is very disappointing and obviously hinders the flow of the
movie and does not gel with the mood either. But one song 'Kitni
Bechein' stands out. But then, that's it.
Overall,
the movie had the scope of being better but Vikram Bhatt lies back
leisurely with this subject and the result is a rather ordinary movie.
But one must appreciate the fact that he had the guts to go ahead with
Aftab and Lisa Ray for this movie and did not go hunting for megastars
to come up with this movie.
Bottomline,
the movie is a decent timepass but nothing great and the movie never
really creates the kind of tension, thrills and chills that is
required.
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